Google released new features for its Google Earth, adding capabilities like city tours to monkey blogs on top of the application’s sattelite images.

The new version includes a timeline of enivornmental changes over the last thirty years, video clips of landmarks and places of interest, and guided tours of cities.

The five content providers for the project include National Geographic, Discovery Networks, the US National Park Service, the Turn Here video travel guides, and the Jane Goodall Institute wildflie research and conversation institute.

The most unique of Google’s new content might be that delivered by the Jane Goodall Institute. The wildlife research facility, based in Tanzania, provides Google with pictures of the institute’s resident chimpanzees and provides users read the “geo-blog” written by their caretakers.

Beacuse the Google Earth content is streamed live over the web, the new content is automatically available to all users with the need to upgrade.

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